Neo Rauch traverses many boundaries in his work: surrealist and realist; comic and serious; dreamlike and journalistic. Rather than condensing his work into one genre or framework, Rauch combines iconographic and visual elements from diverse worlds: comic strips, advertising, film, architecture, design, German culture, art history, and history, in general. This specially designed volume presents Rauch’s drawings, which reflect the archetypal and mythical nature of his work. An interview with the artist and an introductory essay by Wolfgang Büscher provide depth and background to these selected works that hail from every period of Rauch’s career.

Publisher: Prestel

Artist(s): Neo Rauch

Contributor(s): Wolfgang Büscher

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Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Softcover

Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in (15.9 x 21 cm)

Pages: 316

Reproductions: 300 color

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ISBN: 9783791343693

Retail: $40 US & Canada | £30 | €40

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Neo Rauch

Neo Rauch’s paintings are characterized by a unique combination of realism and surrealist abstraction. In many of his compositions, human figures engaged in manual labor or indeterminable tasks work against backdrops of mundane architecture, industrial settings, or bizarre and often barren landscapes. These figures, though squarely centered in his paintings, often have the appearance of being part of still lifes devoid of a human presence or collaged elements belonging to different time zones. Scale is frequently arbitrary and non-perspectival, which adds to an overall dreamlike atmosphere; the spatial relationships construct their own imaginary realm.